Pairings Wine & Cheese

The big day is almost here and all of the kids are busy gathering the last minute goods for the costumes.  I don’t know about you, but I think homemade costumes are the best.   One of our most clever friends dressed her one year old as a garden gnome last year.  Considering Amelie is one of her favorite movies this came as no surprise.  This year he is Pilot Small from the 1930’s children’s book The Little Airplane.   Ingenious and memorable.   Much like the wine and cheese pairings offered at PairingsWineandCheese.com

What better way to spend an evening doling out candy to the many monsters, clowns, hobos, garden gnomes, and Pilot Smalls who will knock on your door than with some wine and cheese.

Join one of the three clubs offered at PairingsWineandCheese.com and you’ll get your treat 6 times a year without having to think about it.

Happy Halloween!

Mid-Atlantic Mums

One trip through our PairingsWineandCheese.com website and it may or may not be obvious that we have a philosophy here at PWC to try to do the right thing.  How we achieve this is something we talk about at every meeting.

One way is to support an artist in South Africa who in turn has created jobs for over 350 people.  Here is a brief story of Carrol Boyes as noted on the Handcrafted Accessories page of our website:

Inspired by and firmly rooted in South Africa, Carrol Boyes artisan products, imbued in their own eccentric soul, have seduced imaginations the world over.

The Carrol Boyes corkscrew, cheese boards and cheese knives offered at PairingsWineandCheese.com are truly pieces of art—functional art.

Use them and be inspired.

Autumn has rolled into beautiful Sonoma County with a vengeance.  In the past three days we have had over three inches of rain and high winds knocking out power in various parts of the county.

As we watch the national weather forecast for the next few days, it looks like winter may be creeping in early in some parts of the country: snow in Pennsylvania, Nor’easter x 2 heading to New England, temps in the 40’s in parts of the mid-west.  Excellent weather to build a fire in the fireplace and enjoy a perfect pairing of wine and cheese–all in the comforts of your home.  Or send a gift to family and friends to brighten their cold, winter-like day!

We posted our press release announcing the launch of the site and within hours the Google spiders found us and put us on the map—for those of you new to this technology thing—this is a good thing!  To see our press release go to http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3007304.htm

Sonoma County had its annual Harvest Fair this past weekend.  This is what an agricultural fair is all about: locally grown foods to taste, locally produced wines to sip, and lots of fun animals to gaze upon and visit with.

PWC’s favorite?  The Sheep Dog trials.

"Turn around and go through the chute"

Watching these dogs work the sheep is for us like watching football, rugby, baseball, etc. is for some of our family and friends.  These fast, methodical, thoughtful, strategic canines keep the spectators on the edges of their seats as the dogs attempt to guide the sheep through the course—all with only whistle or voice command from their handlers. Some of the rules: no barking and no hand signals from the handler!  If you ever have an opportunity to watch such a competition, do so.  Or just rent “Babe” and fast forward to the competition.